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- From: stan@dixie.com (Stan Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR$ (and Dell hardware) total lack of success on Postscript
- Message-ID: <z8dmagp@dixie.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 21:45:40 GMT
- References: <z5-mfvq@dixie.com> <1992Jul18.002830.9207@dellunix.dell.com> <t3bm!g+@dixie.com> <1992Jul20.220337.4427@digibd.com>
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- rhealey@dellr4.digibd.com (Rob Healey) writes:
-
- >In article <t3bm!g+@dixie.com>, stan@dixie.com (Stan Brown) writes:
- >|> I have spent over 15 years working on computers and industrail
- >|> control equipment and making strange and unusal stuff work with
- >|> each other. I have 10 years of UNIX experience. I am almost at
- >|> the point of rwnting a RS-232 line anlyzers and sending you guys a
- >|> print out!
- >|>
- > The printout would probably show the HP printer was screwing up
- > on serial flow control, they tend to do that. I've long since
- > given up on HP's doing serial flow control properly and just
- > use the parallel interface. My guess is you'll get it to
- > work just fine if you do that. I've installed HP and HP alike
-
- Unfortunatly that is not suported because the Dell's Postcript
- filter wants to query the printer for status and a parallel port is
- output only.
-
- > printers on a couple of different SVR4's, Dell and AmigaUNIX
- > mostly, and the parallel interface works great on both systems.
- > The serial wouldn't fly no matter what I tried and it didn't
- > seem worth the effort to bother.
-
- There are known bugs in the USL serail driver, which Dell has
- fixed. And contributed back to USL to allow this to propogate to
- other vendors.
-
- > HP has some strange beasts for hardware, really bizzare
- > flow control stuff if you aren't used to it.
-
- you mean like "robust XON"? or the Enq Ack stuff ?
-
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